DGS Overview

Richard F. Sliwoski, P.E.
Director

Joe DamicoDeputy Director

With more than 600 employees and a budget of approximately $131 million, the Department of General Services (DGS) provides a wide array of services for other state agencies, local governments, and citizens.

DGS serves as the infrastructure for state government by serving in a support capacity with four separate divisions and eight business units.

Leveraging the buying power of the Commonwealth, DPS is able to increase the access to Commonwealth business opportunities for SWAM businesses

Maintains and serves as the authority of the integrity of the Commonwealth’s procurement processes

Statewide Procurement and Distribution Services

Virginia Distribution Center (VDC)

A cooperative procurement service that provides high-quality products through consolidated leveraged purchasing opportunities.

Provides government agencies, political subdivisions, and other government entities high-quality products at usually lower than market prices resulting in savings.

Statewide Laboratory Services

Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services (DCLS)

Performs more than 6 million laboratory tests a year, using 650 different testing methods

Provides analytical testing services for agencies of the Commonwealth of Virginia, local government, federal agencies and other states as well as a wide variety of other samples such as gasoline, animal feeds and fertilizers, lottery tickets and blood specimens from all Virginia infants

DCLS was one of the first 4 state laboratories selected and funded by the federal government to test specimens from people for evidence of exposure to chemical weapons

Statewide Buying, Selling, and Leasing Real Estate Services

Division of Real Estate Services (DRES)

Manages the Commonwealth’s real estate portfolio providing strategic planning assistance to agencies along with transaction negotiation support including leasing acquisition, disposal and easements

Included among the state-owned portfolio of land and buildings DRES oversees, is 400,000 acres of land in over 1,200 locations; 12,000 buildings; and 117 million square feet of space and additionally, Virginia leases approximately 13 million square feet of rental space in 1500 locations.

It is a mandatory source for state agencies pursuant to section 2.1 in the Commonwealth’s Agency Procurement and Surplus Property Manual (APSPM)

Surplus Property Programs

Director’s Office - Central Procurement Unit

Maintains and operates two surplus property warehouses (Richmond & Wytheville) redistributing a wide range of surplus state and federal property to agencies of the Commonwealth, qualified nonprofit organizations, small businesses, and the public